GRE出國(guó)考試閱讀輔導(dǎo):GRE難句解讀(三)

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1.Such variations in size, shape,chemistry, conduction speed, excitation threshold,and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance for any  possible correlation with the manifold dimensions of mental experience.??
    2.Although qualitative variance among nerve energies was never rigidly disproved,the doctrine was generally abandoned in favor of the opposing view,namely,that nerve impulses are essentially homogeneous in quality and are transmitted as “common currency” throughout the nervous system. Other experiments revealed slight variations in the size,number,  arrangement,and interconnection of the nerve cells,but as far as psychoneural correlations were concerned,the obvious similarities of these sensory fields to each other seemed much more remarkable than any of the minute differences. Although some experiments show that,as an object becomes familiar,its internal representation becomes more holistic and the recognition process correspondingly more parallel,the weight of evidence seems to support the serial hypothesis,  at least for objects that are not notably simple and familiar.
    雖然某些實(shí)驗(yàn)表明,隨著一個(gè)物體變得熟悉起來,其內(nèi)心再現(xiàn)圖像亦更具整體感,辨認(rèn)過程相應(yīng)地更趨于平行,但證據(jù)的砝碼似乎在支持序列假設(shè)(serial hypothesis),至少是對(duì)于那些不甚簡(jiǎn)單、不甚熟悉的物體來說。
    3.In large part as a consequence of the feminist movement,historians have focused a great deal of attention in recent years on determining more accurately the status of women in various periods.
    在很大程度上,由于女權(quán)主義運(yùn)動(dòng)(feminist movement)的緣故,史學(xué)家近年來匯聚了大量的注意力,來更為準(zhǔn)確地確定婦女在各個(gè)歷史時(shí)期的地位。
    4.Thus,for instance,it may come as a shock to mathematicians to learn that the Schrodinger equation for the hydrogen atom is not a literally correct description of this atom,but only an approximation to a somewhat more correct equation taking account of spin,magnetic dipole,and relativistic effects;and that this corrected equation is itself only an imperfect approximation to an infinite set of quantum field-theoretical equations.
    因此,舉例來說,對(duì)數(shù)學(xué)家而言,了解到下述情形可能會(huì)令其驚愕不已,即薛定諤(Schrodinger)的氫原子方程式并非是對(duì)該原子作出的一種絕然正確的描述,而僅僅是個(gè)近似值,趨近于一個(gè)在某種程度上更為正確的將自旋、磁性偶極子、以及相對(duì)論效應(yīng)考慮在內(nèi)的方程式;而這個(gè)得以糾正的方程式就其本身而言也只是一個(gè)不完美的近似值,趨近于無窮無盡的一整套量子場(chǎng)論方程式。